I've got a voucher code that gets a free property advert on a great website for selling your house. You can save pictures of your house, description etc....It automatically gives you a map showing your house location and a way for people who are interested to contact you.
The code is EGG-951 and the site is
Can you list a house that isn't in Coventry???
In message , Paul writes
This isnt the way to market your new web site. Have you seen your competition? E.g. rightmove.co.uk
Paul spammed:
and for those a bit more stressed about moving, theres movedamnit.co.uk
NT
It's about as useless as all the other online estate agent websites.
If they want to compete against rightmove and vebra, the web site needs:
a) A decent search engine (eg I want houses within 1/4 mile of the postcode OR 1/2 mile of this postcode OR this-town, etc)
b) Decent photos - not scaled down to a postage stamp.
c) Floor plans (though that is as much t do with the agent).
Tim
d) lots of property for sale in all areas.
Don't you like Coventry? ;->
Just come across this site (I have no affiliation)
Photos are still crap and the searching is no better, but the map is a nice touch IMO.
I guess they are spidering the agents' sites, so the photos won't improve until the agents stop being crap. For real innovation, a little natural language processing on the agents' descriptions would go a long way - eg:
I want a house here, with a garage or at least off road parking and the smallest bedroom must be bigger than blah (with imperial/metric conversion). Sort of thing google might do well. Wouldn't surprise me if they had a go one day.
Personally, I find most agents rather ineffectual. First thing I do when viewing a property is take my Leica Distro and a pencil and sketch reasonably accurate floorplans. I still manage to find time to roughly assess the state of the electrics, plumbing and fixtures, spot the damp in the chimney breast and so on. All my and SWMBO's questions and musings on "where can we build cupboards" and "what about a playhouse in the garden" and "how about an attic conversion" can all be answered at leisure with the floorplan on the computer, in the comfort of our home. If they agents did this (properly) I wouldn't make them wait 50 minutes at every viewing whilst I did it.
Cheers
Tim Simple questions like what's the council tax band are met with glazed eyes.
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